Gerhard Richter

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know…

— Gerhard Richter

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this…

— Gerhard Richter

I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love…

— Gerhard Richter

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I…

— Gerhard Richter

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

— Gerhard Richter

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

— Gerhard Richter

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not…

— Gerhard Richter

Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was…

— Gerhard Richter

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

— Gerhard Richter

There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of…

— Gerhard Richter

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

— Gerhard Richter

My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By…

— Gerhard Richter

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the…

— Gerhard Richter

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

— Gerhard Richter

I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was…

— Gerhard Richter

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

— Gerhard Richter

The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush.…

— Gerhard Richter

I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized…

— Gerhard Richter

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding…

— Gerhard Richter

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have…

— Gerhard Richter

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

— Gerhard Richter

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both…

— Gerhard Richter

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which…

— Gerhard Richter

It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not…

— Gerhard Richter

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,…

— Gerhard Richter